Mehbooba Mufti warns BJP against splitting PDP

SRINAGAR: Former chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Friday warned the BJP-led Centre against “engineering a split” in her party, which she claimed would give birth to new terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir.

Mehbooba resigned as chief minister on June 19 after BJP pulled out of the coalition with PDP.

Talking to reporters in downtown on the occasion of ‘Martyrs Day’, Mehbooba said that if BJP at the Centre interfered and engineer a split in PDP, it would have “disastrous consequences”.

She said it would give birth to new terrorists the way Syed Salahuddins (chief of Hizbul Mujahideen) and Yasin Maliks (chief of JKLF) were born in 1987 when Muslim United Front (MUF) was repressed by rigging assembly polls.